Georgia-Pacific Plans to Build Pipeline to the River

[riverkeepered]

Recently, Georgia-Pacific (GP) said they are ready to begin constructing a 4-mile long pipeline to divert its wastewater from Rice Creek to the heart of the St. Johns River.

St. Johns RIVERKEEPER recently announced the Cleaner GP awareness campaign to encourage Georgia-Pacific (GP) to abandon its plans to build a pipeline to the St. Johns River and to pursue alternative solutions to its wastewater pollution problems.  The CleanerGP.com campaign and website (www.cleanergp.com) call on citizens to sign a petition to Governor Rick Scott asking him to require further toxicity testing of Georgia-Pacific’s wastewater and to require GP to find an acceptable alternative that will protect the health of the St. Johns River.   

The proposed pipeline would be a major setback to the ongoing efforts to reduce pollution and restore the health of the St. Johns. 

Building a pipeline to relocate polluted wastewater to the St. Johns River is not a solution.  This will only add additional pollutants to a river that is already sick. 

This is our last chance to try and put an end to the pipeline once and for all.

All of us downstream of the mill deserve better than a pipeline.   There are a significant number of businesses and thousands of jobs related to commercial and recreational fishing, tourism, real estate, boating, and other marine-related industries that depend upon a clean and healthy St. Johns.

[spuwho]

Can we get information on how much treatment GP performs on the wastewater before it ejects it?

- Do they separate out the particulate?
- Do they perform any filtration or dilution activities?

What is the content of the effluent they are anticipating piping through?

Pulp residue?
Formaldehyde?


Is there a website where this is documented?

There are some international solutions for post-pulp effluent cleanup, it would be good to know what it is made up of.

[JeffreyS]

I signed.

[Overstreet]

Salinaty?

It all flows to the St Johns anyway unless it settles out in Rice Creek. They want to do it because they can't meet the standards in Rice Creek. Seems short sighted.

[mbwright]

I'm sure Gov Scott will not block this, as this has to do with the EPA, and environmental regulations, which he feels are evil, and the reason houses are not being built and sold.  This never should have been approved, since it was based upon GP not fixing the problem to begin with.